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 Why it remains one of the biggest beneficiaries despite poor human rights record Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A U.S. government report released in March indicated that the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) had the highest number of trainees among African countries who underwent foreign military training by the …

  | THE INDEPENDENT | Elon Musk recently completed the purchase of 9.2% of Twitter’s stock and became the social media company’s largest shareholder. He was also offered a seat on the company’s board, which he declined. On one level, Musk’s investment seemed to make a lot of sense: Musk …

  Electric fencing, lodge owners on the spot Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On April 26, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) announced sad news of the electrocution of three lionesses in Queen Elizabeth National Park. UWA said in a 110-word statement that “the lions were found dead on an …

Prosecutors cry out for resources to tackle the vice Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Uganda is unique in the human trafficking matrix because it is a “source, transit and destination” for traffickers, says Tyler Dunman who works with The Human Trafficking Institute, an American NGO that empowers police and …

The case of Rwanda and the UK UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on April 4, 2022 that Britain would relocate some asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda. The plan was condemned by the opposition as well as human rights groups such as Amnesty International. The UK has …

No funding for NAM and G77 gatherings- parliament report Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Two major international summits that were meant to happen in Kampala in the next one year will not happen after government failed to allocate them funding. The summits are the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) and …

Mwai Kibaki, third President of Kenya, dies at 90 | Hailed for focusing on Kenya’s economy   OBITUARY | IAN KATUSIIME | President Yoweri Museveni had just left Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on April 21 after a meeting with his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta when Mwai Kibaki was pronounced dead …

ANALYSIS | BAKER BATTE | The former President of Kenya, the late Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki will be remembered for the election violence that gripped Kenya in 2007/8 following an acrimonious election. Kibaki who died on Friday was announced as the winner of the hotly contested election having defeated his …

Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | At a time when the Iranian nuclear talks are about to reach an agreement, Iran and world powers have adjourned their talks, mostly over whether the United States will remove Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) from its Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list. While negotiations …

How the state weakens competition and maximises control Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Around midnight in June 2014, in a village in northern Uganda, an unarmed 37-year-old man was shot in the back as he fled from a police officer. He died hours before he was found, lying face …